Listening Quotes

• There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Time
  • Words
  • Silence

• When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Listening

• Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a word of it. Melody to me will always be a million times more important than words.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Music
  • Important
  • Words

• You need a pulse in a film. If I see a film that doesn't have rhythm, it's like listening to music that doesn't have rhythm; it doesn't really work.

  

  Joe Wright
  • Work
  • Music
  • Listening

• It's the role of us to run our government, the government by the people, for the people, and I don't think our government is listening to the people. It's our role as patriots to question them, because we elected them. And if they're not fairly and accurately representing us, it's the job of the people, the patriots, to take their country back.

  

  Maynard James Keenan
  • People
  • Country
  • Job

• An important part of my job is listening to diverse points of view at all levels - from Millennials starting their careers... to women at the highest levels of leadership... to my own wife and daughter.

  

  Pierre Nanterme
  • Important
  • Women
  • Job

• Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

  

  Jane Asher
  • World
  • Bad
  • Listening

• Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us.

  

  Richard L. Evans
  • People
  • Listening
  • Young

• My relationship with God has gotten so much stronger. He's always had his hand on me. He always guided me. I didn't always go where he wanted me to go. But He always had me. Now that I'm actually listening and being obedient, life is so much better.

  

  DMX
  • Life
  • God
  • Relationship

• I grew up listening to bachata, to some of the greats of the genre. But it was very natural for me to create this type of fusion and to incorporate new beats.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Up
  • Listening

• I like to put something on and want to listen to it again once I get done listening to it, not feel like I need an ear break.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Done
  • Listening

• As a parent with young children, I would always find little things that bothered me when I was reading bedtime stories or watching shows or listening to children's music. I couldn't find any stories, games or television shows that were fun and exciting while also being morally instructive and patriotic.

  

  Allen Covert
  • Music
  • Children
  • Fun

• The acquisition of knowledge need not be like listening to the Gregorian chant.

  

  John McLaughlin
  • Knowledge
  • Listening

• I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Up
  • Music
  • Spiritual

• Rick Nielsen, Angus Young. Huge Eddie Van Halen fan when I was younger. Jimmy Page is an enormous one who impacts me. When you grow up with classic rock like that and then you get into punk rock, you defy your roots and where you came from. I never really went through that. Even when I started listening to the Clash or the Sex Pistols, I still always listened to Led Zeppelin or Kiss.

  

  Tad Kubler
  • Kissing
  • Classic
  • Punk

• I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.

  

  John James Audubon
  • Up
  • Listening

• I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.

  

  Keith Emerson Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  • Long
  • Listening

• I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Work
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• Religion, according to Alfred North Whitehead, is a phenomenon that begins in wonder and ends in wonder. Feelings of awe, reverence, and gratitude are primary, and these can never be learned from books. We gain them from sitting high on a cliff side, gazing at the sea, lost in reverie and listening to the laughter of children.

  

  Gary A. Kowalski
  • Children
  • Book
  • Gratitude

• Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old. As a result, I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.

  

  Brian Joseph Burton Broken Bells
  • People
  • Different
  • Moved

• Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

  

  David Hockney
  • Positive
  • Listening

• I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

  

  Coco Lee
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

  

  Bill Frisell
  • Sound
  • Musician
  • Seeing

• With the '60s era and Motown, my grandparents actually introduced us to that when I was younger, so I grew up listening to the Jackson Five, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Supremes and Diana Ross' solo stuff. I just loved it.

  

  Jordin Sparks
  • Up
  • Listening
  • Grandparents

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